SIGGRAPH Highlights (2010)

SIGGRAPH Trailer

Channelling Steampunk, this film captures the glorious chaos of an urban battlefield.

Just about every boy has had to contend with a scary monster at some stage - but this takes it to a whole new level.

Mega, hi-tech, fighting transformer joins forces with squishy toy mouse on a string to take the battle to the cat.

101 different ways to take a serious bruising on the way to a gig.

An ambient collection of connections; an elaborate dance of the lines that link everything to everything else.

A digital creation of the work done by NASA's "Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter" as it searches the surface of the moon looking for safe landing sites for the next manned mission.

A startling digital visualisation of a giant urban space emerging from the ground as a giant lily.

Tchaikovsky's 'Swan Lake' provides the inspiration for recreating the journey of a mythical Aztec god which arrives on an ancient sun-drenched, molten earth in the form of a graceful jaguar.

Things are a VERY long way from OK in this doll shop, which has a way of absorbing little girls that linger too long at the window.

Don't make the legless, red box angry - he might be looking for a friend but he eats cities!

A million and one cherries all working in perfect harmony.

An uber-elegant, fluid dance par excellence! Freixenet anyone?

A colony of flying cursors create a 600lb gorilla to drive home the message about pandas.

Going where only digital animation can go - the beyond-intricate DNA of a vast new building appears, grows and builds itself ever skyward before our very eyes.

A thought-provoking pastiche of visual ideas of what might become of us when our time here has ebbed and then ended for all time.

A lavish, visual dissertation exploring the infinite complexities of simple movement through multiple planes of space and imagination.

A jazz-history lesson using a plethora of inanimate digital sculptures.

No pigeon should be given this kind of firepower. Only a half-eaten bagel can save the world now.

Meta-digitale. A supremely graceful ballet using the visual language of special effects as its theme.

Believe it! Glide home - the ultimate commute.

Transmitting images mind to mind. The ultimate mind meld? A future cure for blindness?

Scientific medical documentary footage depicting cell replication of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

A million million crystals swarm together to form butterfly robots, which will be sent out to explore the farthest reaches of Mars.

Even space monkeys can only withstand so much temptation. One monkey's story of reaching for the stars and crashing to earth.